Angnyaiq

[[Category:Former colonies|Angnyaiq, Olboros Qonklaks]]

Angnyaiq
'Kwang: Annyaiq/見仙 Angnyaiq Kwang: Anx Ngaq Standard Pan-Ambaroid: TBD
Colony (Olboros Qonklaks)
← 1705–19?? →
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Capital		Agnyaiq City
Languages		Standard Kwang, Angnyaiq Kwang, Standard Pan-Ambaroid
Political structure		Colony
History
•	Established	1705
•	Angnyaiq City founded	1733
•	Officially recognized as a Qonklese colony	1780
•	Start of the Quonco-Dhweran War	1782
•	Dhwer cedes all claims	1842
•	Independence from Qonklaks	1902
•	Disestablished	19??
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Angnyaiq (Standard Kwang: An Nyaiq [ã́ ɲɛ̄ˀ], Angnyaiq Kwang: Anx Ngaq [ɐ̃́x ŋɐ̀ˀ], Standard Pan-Ambaroid: [X]), was a Qonklese trade post and then colony in Nagu, facing the Dragon Sea.

Etymology

Angnyaiq is derived from Middle Kwang ang ‘see’ + ñaq ‘spirit’. Angnyaiq and Nagu in general was believed to be as a continent home to the gods, where the heavens connected with the earth.

History

Around 500CE, the first reports of the Ambaroid people begin to appear in Dhweran trading records. The First Dhweran Empire traded minimally with the peoples of the region. Early trade posts were established but seem not to have lasted long or left a lasting impact on the region.

Qonklese colonization

In 1705, a group of traders from eastern Qonklaks established a trading post in Angnyaiq. There was no official name for the post, though eventually the name Angnyaiq became used for the trading post and the area surrounding. Throughout the early 18th century, careful advertising and cheap offers of land lead to fast growth of the post, and it eventually became a large, primarily Kwang speaking settlement. By the time Angnyaiq City was officially founded in 1733, there was already a large settlement and a number of plantations, staffed by freeborn Kwang, Ambaroid, and slaves, growing cash crops and producing considerable wealth. The eighteenth century in Angnyaiq was characterized by booming trade but constant conflicts with its neighbours, be them over slave raids and slave trade, as with Cyan Zalra or about trade rights, shipping lanes and island territories, as with the Triple Kingdom.

In 1780, after Angnyaiq had grown considerably, both in territory and volume of trade, Emperor Ëratsó I officially absorbed the territory into the Celestial Empire, imposing a new code of laws designed to alleviate the tensions with its neighbors and secure further trade. These laws foresaw the outlawing of slave trading, the full recognition of Kav personhood, recognition of Nycyätli-speaking minorities and freedom of transit and preaching for Giljist clergy, along with a new set of trade agreements. While these proved enough to ensure favourable diplomacy with the newly formed Tsalrathicarn, they were insufficient to assuade Dhwer, who invaded the region in 1782 triggering the Quonco-Dhweran War. The War was, de facto, shortlived, with the outdaded Dhweran navy being overwhelmed by Qonklaks by 1790 and Qonklese dominion over the region all but ensured by the turn of the century. Despite that, Dhwer would only officially relinquish their claims over the region and sign a peace treaty with Qonklaks in 1842.